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- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are…
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great…
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then I type it…
- What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn't know how I was going to pay the rent. Now that…
- Each time he took a walk, he felt as though he were leaving himself behind, and by giving himself up to the movement of the…
- Every book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close, and its words…
- Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour,…
- In general, lives seem to veer abruptly from one thing to another, to jostle and bump, to squirm. A person heads in one direction, turns…
- Then, without any warning, we both straightened up, turned towards each other, and began to kiss. After that, it is difficult for me to speak…
- Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates, the truth was…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Beautician: the official occupation of the 'I wear too much make-up fat girl'. — Nikhil Saluja
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash
- Do you know how much you mean to me? Do you know that you are the first thing I think of when… — Superman
- Successful people don't relax on a chair. They feel relaxed with their work. They sleep with their dreams and wake up with… — Ritu Ghatourey
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold